You wait for something to happen with bated breath. You hope for it day and night, building stories around it – different versions in different settings — all climaxing into the same ending, into that one wish, into that one desire. But even then your wish might come true in a form that will take you by surprise. I so wanted to see her again. But I never imagined landing right next to her in the office elevator. It was on one morning when I was boarding the lift, lost in my thoughts, contemplating on the week gone by, that I saw her standing in there and I was overcome with a feeling of extreme trepidation.
She was standing right beside me. My heart stopped in my chest. For a moment, I dared not breathe. I thought of getting away as far as possible. But there was not an inch to move. Beads of perspiration rolled down my head. A wave of panic swept through me. I felt trapped. Then the breaths became heavier and heart beats faster. I felt like falling. I tried to look ahead as straight as an arrow, trying hard to stand straight, ensuring to do not get noticed, to calm my gushing breaths and to slow down the beating heart.
The lift stopped at the next floor. Two thin guys alighted. Before I could rejoice the dispersion -a chance to relax, take a breath or two —an oversized man hurled himself into the lift. The invasion made everybody squirm in an already crowded lift. The congestion made my vision cloudy and head dizzy. It was at that moment when everybody was trying to wiggle, to create space for the new traveler, that I felt her shoulder brush against mine.
It was a gentle touch, a light flick. She mightn’t have even noticed that. But to me, it felt like the heat of a burning wood in a frosty night. I lowered my eyes and saw her at the edge of my vision. In a black tunic, her face shone like a full moon against a dark sky. Her curls fell down her neck like streams of a gentle river. She was only a couple of inches shorter than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your heart. Even in the crowded lift she stood with a nonchalance gait that made her stood out from the rest.
I didn’t take notice of surroundings after that —on which floor lift stopped, which ones it skipped, who boarded and who didn’t. I just kept on watching her, my reality melting into her thoughts like a candle wax melting from the burning flame. I didn’t realize when we reached the sixth floor. The sixth-floor beep jolted me out from my reverie. I looked around lest somebody was observing me. With a few others, she moved out of the lift. As I saw her leaving, my heart ached with a hundred emotions, all burning with the same desire. Suddenly I felt alone in that lift full of people. It was like a part of me tore off from me when she left.
I felt a void created where she had stood only a few seconds before. The sweet smell of her perfume still lingered in the air. I leaned back on the elevator wall and smiled at my own folly. Each moment I was falling more and more into her, and she didn’t even know that I existed. The feelings made me feel like a teenager again. I closed my eyes and let the moment settle in my core. I didn’t know how and when I would see her again, so I wanted to hold on to this feeling, this moment for as long as it was possible.
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hey….why dont you speak to her….
this is the part when I put on a toothy smile and say no words .. *remember chandler’s face when he was posing for the camera in an episode of friends, My face become worse than that* 😛
just a normal conversation…..if you dont speak to her how will she ever have the merest idea you care for her….do it before she falls in love with some other guy….what if she has feelings for you????
Nahh. she doesn’t know me. And if she knows, then probably as a ‘creepy guy from the ninth floor’ 😉 I had a couple of opportunities to talk, messed them up like an idiot :/. But i’m planning ot do something about it, soon. 🙂
hey valentines day is coming right…..isnt it a good start for all these things…
why am I so interested in your personal life…..sorry for my curiosity….but you write so well that indeed induced my inquisitiveness ….
Thanks Anagha for saying that. (at least something good is coming out of my stupid crush on her) 😛 Your curiosity and comments is expected, and on some level talking with you about it is making my nervousness go away.. thanks for that 🙂
all the very best dear friend for your endeavor on speaking to her…I look forward for your posts on it……
Thank you very much Anagha. Will surely share those here. 🙂
dont thank me nitin…..
there is no thanks in friendship.
Yes, we are so friends. 🙂
arent we not???
We are friends, of course. 🙂
how about being my brother…..
This is such a sweet thing to say Anagha. Yes, why not. I appreciate your words, and the feelings behind it. 🙂
yes….I got an other brother…so happy dear….so gud nyt brother….
Yes… I too have a brother… so very happy dear 😉 … gyd nyt sis 🙂
I dont have any own brother but sweet brothers who arent born with me…now you are too one among them,,,,,,I cant stop smiling….so happy…
Yes. Me too anagha. This is a pleasant ending to an otherwise hectic bitter day. 🙂
I read alien comment first. That’s why said you can’t be alien to it, coz you are empathizing with me, whom you haven’t met. 🙂
he he….
and I feel alien to this word thank you…
No, you are so not. See, we haven’t met, still you are empathizing with my situation. This is so exactly opposite of that. 🙂
is it….
Thanks a lot Chandni. Yes, I also feel talking to her will be interesting (for me, at least), but I don’t know.. what if her response will leave me all sad and sorrowful and render me so melancholy that i stopped writing totally 😛 😉
True words Chandi. Point noted. And such an intelligent play of words. Cry and try, try and cry.. will try second 😛
Haha, that’s the spirit! Chalo then, try it tomorrow okay? Promise? 🙂
Hehe.. you would make a strict teacher. 😛 today lesson, test tomorrow. Arre, wait, I’ll have to prepare, A LOT 😀
Ahaha, arey why learn only theory? Practical approach makes learning better. 😛
What prepare haan? Idk, you have to do it, hehe, abi ho jaaye aar ya paar! 😀
I just realized one thing. It’s mighty difficult to win arguments against you. 😛 Are you a debate champion or something like that 😉
I think you should. *you can easily sweep some of the competitions. 😉 * . Thanks Chandni for all the motivation, I think you just reduced my timelines of talking by months. (i was targeting the year end, but i guess now will do this by year mid 😛 )
Hahah, achha I’ll try okay. Dekho maine aapki baat maani, then you also have to do the same. Haina?
No year mid, no nothing! Achha by the end of this week, that’s enough for all the preparation I guess. 😉
ye week to planning me chala jaayega 😛
Areyyy! ._.
Itna plan karke karoge toh maza nai aayega na, samajhte hi nai ho.
Be spontaneous! Just go and say hii, baaki bhagwaan bharose! 😛
Everything hapens for good, remember. 🙂
Hehe… Yes, i think i have no more counter argument left 😉 . Yes, operation talk to her starts 😛
Yipppee!! Good boy. 🙂 🙂
Kal jaana aur Hii bolna, samajh gaye na? 😀
😀 🙂
🙂 🙂 🙂
Be ready, I’ll ask you tomorrow, aur koi bahaana nai banana.
Damn it. I thought the two smileys will make you forget. 😐 Ok. 😉
Haha, I’m not that stupid, samjhe na. 😛
My memory is very sharp. Haha, achha btw, abi Hii bologe then she might take it otherwise, abi Valentine’s week is going on na! Do one thing, Valentine’s day par bolna. 🙂
Tab tak you’ll prepare also. 🙂
Hehe.. ok.. on valentines… pakka se 😉
Pakka matlab, pakka promise na? Likh ke do abi. 😛
Haan. Yes. 🙂
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Thanks for motivating me so much. I appreciate your efforts. *no doubts you are a fighter * 🙂
yeah. 🙂
Chalo then it’s already half done! All the best, and don’t plan too much, haina? 🙂
Yes. Time for action. 😛
The most exciting and memorable moments of young romance are stolen glaces, chance proximity and careless brush of skin against skin. Never gets old, never ceases to overwhelm 🙂
Never fails to sweep us off the floor, this emotion 🙂
Sadly once the novelty wears off, it’s a whole different story… hehe
So, is eternal love a myth? 😉
Never! Love is powerful and the greatest truth. We as humans and in this time are majorly propelled by fear which is why our ability to love without conditions and expectations suffers. 😐
Good to hear that. Otherwise we have become so skeptic that we have lost faith in that, analyzing everything in the perspective of cost benefit analysis.
True!
When we try hard not to get noticed , that’s when we actually do. Your Trying to look as straight as an arrow without blinks..was expected in such a situation. But nobody would have noticed it in such a crowded lift :p
On the writeup, i have to say Every emotion, action and feeling was marvelously expressed. Great job as always, Nitin.
And hey, you forget to elaborate on why she came back to office after she had left?
( you could use a part of this as an argument too, in case you had to give your due diligence report on Valentines’ ) 😉
Thanks Hargun. I will elaborate, soon. 🙂 *Again, bowled over by your eye for the details. * 🙂
Hehe… Thanks!
I simply remembered it from the last part.
Go for it man! You know what they say, and I’m sure it’s true, when you’re on your deathbed you never think: “I wish I hadn’t done that” but rather “if only I had done it!” 😉
Yes. Thanks Nathalie. Similar thoughts wandering in my mind these days. Soon. Very soon. 🙂
Awwww……. Talk to her Nithin!!!!! She might be thinking the same and shying off! 😛 You never know!! Ohhh ohh!! Did I just say that? 😛 hahah!!! Go on man try a word but don’t sound desperate, coz guys being desperate might drive her away or makes a girl tend to be more arrogant and the horns of Arrogance pops up! 😛 hahaha!! Spilling loads of “Girl” secrets … but no issues specially for you! 😉 Make sure that she is interested and if she isn’t walk off … don’t break your precious heart for someone not worth it! 😉 Your princess is waiting for your arrival!! 😀
Yesss.. I will now.. it’s better to be on one side… and thank you so much for the last two lines. 🙂
heheh what did you do?? tell me!!! I neeed updates nithin!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hehe please don’t thank me! 😉 save it fr a treat!! when u find the right girl! 😛
Updates coming soon 😛 and yes, treat. It’s a deal 😉
hahah awwiee!! 😛
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so after reading so many comments finally did you had a talk with her ?? I would say first be friends with her..your half of the problems would be sorted.. later on you never know when your friendship may turn into both sided love.. but on the darker side.. you should be mentally prepared for everything i know this may sound some rude..but baad me dil dukhne se toh achcha hi hai pehle se hi ready rahe 😀 ! because i have seen such things with my friends a lot so I would not like to let you fall under the same thing like they fell into..
Yes. Sort of. Will post about it 🙂
ok..:)
I amsure many of us are waiting forit 🙂
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No, your words are not rude. But exactly the kind of things I needed to here Divya. Thanks for such a lovely and caring comment. I really appreciate.
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Haha.. Was missing your comments. 😀 The comments on your posts are blocked too. Keeping busy ?
Haha… too good sarcasm 😛 😀
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